2023 TV Preview: The Last Of Us, Ahsoka, Mayfair Witches, Wolf Pack And 16 More Shows We're Excited About

It was a tough year for TV goodbyes in 2022... but 2023 seems prepared to fill those voids.

The next 12 months promise to be eventful for the small screen, ushering in a wave of brand-new freshmen while welcoming back veteran series that we've missed quite a bit during their hiatuses. (In the case of Starz's Party Down, at least, we're talking about a 13-year (!) drought.)

In the list below, Team TVLine has highlighted 20 upcoming series — 10 new and 10 returning — that we're eagerly anticipating in 2023. January alone brings the arrivals of AMC's Mayfair Witches adaptation, HBO's take on The Last of Us and Sarah Michelle Gellar's return to the supernatural via Paramount+'s Wolf Pack.

But many more compelling series await us in later months, from the debuts of new Star Wars and Marvel titles (Ahsoka, Agatha: Coven of Chaos) to the long-awaited returns of Succession, Yellowjackets and more.

Keep scrolling to see all 20 series — actually, make that #19SeriesAndAMovie — that we can't wait to watch in 2023, then hit the comments with your own picks!

WHY IT EXCITES US: Plot details are minimal, and a release date timetable is still vague. But "Kathryn Hahn reprising her role as Agatha Harkness" is all we need to hear to be 100 percent in on this forthcoming WandaVision spinoff, which will hopefully reveal what became of the titular witch after Wanda trapped her in her neighborly Agnes persona. And we're further intrigued by the reported returns of WandaVision's Emma Caulfield Ford and Debra Jo Rupp, who will join a stacked (though rumored) ensemble that also includes The White Lotus' Aubrey Plaza, Heartstopper's Joe Locke, Broadway vet Patti LuPone and more. — Rebecca Iannucci

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: Winter 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: Rosario Dawson's appearance as the Jedi in The Mandalorian Season 2 (which also marked the character's live-action debut) all but confirmed that we were getting the show fans have been asking for since the character's introduction in the 2008 animated film The Star Wars: The Clone Wars (voiced by Ashley Eckstein) and memorable run in the subsequent animated series of the same name. Details on the plot remain scarce, but the anticipated show promises to deliver a more serialized story, as teased by series creator Dave Filoni. Plus, the return of Hayden Christensen as Ahsoka's master Anakin Skywalker is icing on the cake. — Keisha Hatchett

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: An "average teenager" is "unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods"? We're curious. Michelle Yeoh playing a self-described "badass" goddess? We're absolutely watching. (Check out this featurette and tell us you, too, aren't all in.) — Matt Webb Mitovich

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: After being fully seduced by Interview With the Vampire last year, we're ready to fall under the spell of another Anne Rice adaptation. And who better to shepherd us through this tale of tea leaves and treachery than Alexandra Daddario, the perfectly charming (and Emmy-nominated) standout from The White Lotus' first season? — Andy Swift

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: Sunday, Jan. 8 at 9/8c

WHY IT EXCITES US: Because the #SixSeasonsAndAMovie prophecy is finally being fulfilled! But also, enough time has passed since the college-set comedy's 2015 finale that we're heading into the movie with virtually no expectations. We're just happy about the prospect of seeing the entire original cast — well, almost the entire original cast; we have our doubts about Chevy! — together again, no matter what sort of story Dan Harmon has up his sleeve. — Ryan Schwartz

RELEASE DATE: 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: We loved Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel about the rise and fall of a fictional 1970s rock band, and we can't wait to see all the messy, musical action play out on the small screen. Plus, that cast? Riley Keough (The Terminal List), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Timothy Olyphant (Justified)? We're already raising our lighters for an encore! — Kimberly Roots

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: Friday, March 3 (weekly episodes)

WHY IT EXCITES US: Mike Flanagan has put his effectively spooky stamp on several literary works already, adapting titles from Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House), Christopher Pike (The Midnight Club) and more. We're eager to see his take on Edgar Allan Poe's vast and iconic library of stories, which will be brought to life by faces both familiar (Carla Gugino!) and new (Mark Hamill!) to the Flanagan-verse. On a more bittersweet note, House of Usher will also serve as Flanagan and producing partner Trevor Macy's final project at Netflix, having signed a production deal with Amazon Studios in late 2022. Here's hoping for a frightful farewell. — R.I.

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: Has fatherhood softened U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens? Has time slowed his draw? Though the original Justified signed off in April 2015, this limited series picks up with Raylan 14 years later, when a road trip with daughter Willa (played by Timothy Olyphant's real-life kid, Vivian) hits a detour that weaves them into an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. Boyd Holbrook is your Big Bad, Clement Mansell aka The Oklahoma Wildman, and Aunjanue Ellis plays fierce legal eagle Carolyn Wilder, among a cast that also boasts Adelaide Clemens (Rectify), Vondie Curtis Hall, Marin Ireland and Norbert Leo Butz. In other words, this one is locked and loaded. — M.W.M.

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: The Naughty Dog video game on which HBO's forthcoming drama is based has an emotionally resonant story, likable (yet fallible) characters and a very scary premise: What is the world like decades after an outbreak that turns a lot of people into zombie-like creatures? But The Last of Us is no Walking Dead redux, and we're betting that the combination of The Mandalorian's Pedro Pascal and Game of Thrones' Bella Ramsey as embittered survivor Joel and idealistic teen Ellie — not to mention the fact that the show hails from Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann and Chernobyl's Craig Mazin — will win over gamers and non-gamers alike. — K.R.

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: Sunday, Jan. 15 at 9/8c

WHY IT EXCITES US: Loki's exhilarating freshman run left us on a whopper of a cliffhanger, with a multiversal war poised to break out just as Loki was transported to a new and unfamiliar timeline. With several MCU films having been released since then, further elevating the crazy-high stakes, we're anxious to see how the God of Mischief will navigate his latest bizarre reality. Plus: Loki and Mobius in tuxes! — R.I.

SEASON 2 PREMIERE DATE: Summer 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: We'll watch Elizabeth Olsen in just about anything. We'll also watch Jesse Plemons in just about anything. Since they respectively star here as accused axe murderer Candy Montgomery and Montgomery's lover Allan Gore, how could we possibly pass this one up? And while this particular true-crime story was just explored by Hulu's Candy miniseries last May, we're interested to see how writer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and director Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland) approach the subject matter. — R.I.

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: We can't wait to party again with the wannabe actors-slash-disinterested caterers from Starz's cult hit comedy, which returns with the bulk of its main cast intact (minus Lizzy Caplan). The original two-season run was always an underrated gem with a top-notch ensemble, and we have no idea how these people are still serving appetizers a decade later... but we're sure there's a painfully hilarious reason behind it. — Dave Nemetz

SEASON 3 PREMIERE DATE: Friday, Feb. 24 at 9/8c

WHY IT EXCITES US: We've followed Franklin's journey for five stressful yet entertaining seasons, and now it all comes to an end with the FX drama's sixth and final batch of episodes. With the KGB, DEA, CIA and LAPD all circling the drug kingpin, who's on the verge of losing everything, this farewell run promises to be nothing short of explosive. — K.H.

SEASON 6 PREMIERE DATE: Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 10/9c (two-episode premiere)

WHY IT EXCITES US: With most of the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew — including Michael Dorn's Worf, LeVar Burton's Geordi La Forge, Jonathan Frakes' Riker, Marina Sirtis' Troi and Gates McFadden's Dr. Beverly Crusher — set to appear alongside Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard, the Paramount+ series' third and final season looks to be a highly satisfying curtain call. — K.H.

SEASON 3 PREMIERE DATE: Thursday, Feb. 16 (weekly episodes)

WHY IT EXCITES US: We somehow survived all of 2022 without anything new from TV's best drama, but thankfully, the drought will end this spring, with the super-wealthy, super-messed up Roy family back at each other's throats for a fourth season. We left off on a massive cliffhanger, too, with Kendall, Roman and Shiv's coup attempt blowing up in their faces... and Shiv's husband Tom crossing over to the dark side to team up with malignant patriarch Logan. — D.N.

SEASON 4 PREMIERE DATE: Spring 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: Any new installment of HBO's twisted crime anthology is worth our attention, and this one is extra intriguing, thanks to the arrival of Oscar winner Jodie Foster as an Alaskan detective on the hunt for six men who mysteriously vanished deep in the Arctic. The ensemble cast is stacked (Fiona Shaw, John Hawkes, Christopher Eccleston), and the early footage looks every bit as bleak and moody as we'd expect from this franchise. — D.N.

SEASON 4 PREMIERE DATE: 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: This adaptation of the Esi Edugyan novel promises to be quite a sprawling yarn, chronicling the journey of the titular enslaved, 11-year-old boy (played by newcomer Eddie Karanja) who flees a Barbados sugar plantation after a traumatic incident. What's more, along the away, "Wash" meets disparate, larger-than-life characters played by the likes of Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us), Tom Ellis (Lucifer), Shaunette Renée Wilson (The Resident) and Rupert Graves (Sherlock). Sounds like quite a trip! — M.W.M.

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: 2023

WHY IT EXCITES US: We've longed for Sarah Michelle Gellar's return to genre television from the moment she laid down Buffy's stake, so the idea of her once again engaging in fisticuffs with some gnarly beasts is simply thrilling. That excitement totally makes up for our minor disappointment that Wolf Pack isn't an official Teen Wolf spinoff, despite the two franchises sharing a creator. — A.S.

SERIES PREMIERE DATE: Thursday, Jan. 26 (weekly episodes)

WHY IT EXCITES US: With a cliffhanger like the one at the end of the Season 1 finale ("Who the f—k is Lottie Matthews?!"), as well as the evolving mystery of what really happened in the woods years ago (who's wearing those pink Converse in the flashbacks?), we were already eagerly awaiting the Showtime thriller's return. But now that Simone Kessell (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings), Lauren Ambrose (Servant) and Jason Ritter (Raising Dion) are on board for Season 2, we're beyond psyched. All hail the Antler Queen! — K.R.

SEASON 2 PREMIERE DATE: Sunday, March 26 at 9/8c

WHY IT EXCITES US: Against all odds, this Netflix thriller has managed to completely reinvent itself with every season. And the show's fourth outing, which relocates Penn Badgley's master manipulator to London, promises to be its biggest departure yet. With The White Lotus' Lukas Gage among the new faces in Joe Goldberg's orbit, we can't wait to see what fresh hell this bloke will raise across the pond. — A.S.

SEASON 4 PREMIERE DATE: First five episodes stream on Thursday, Feb. 9; back half premieres on Thursday, March 9